Chapter 1283 – Balancing South Asia

After the duel at the top of the Himalayas, Pakistan’s change in attitude was only one of the most obvious of the many direct effects of the war.

In fact, in terms of Pakistan’s population and land area, these two hard indicators, but it is normal to beat India, but as a base for offshore balance, even if it is the loss of Bangladesh Pakistan, is also qualified, not to mention that now Bangladesh is still in Pakistan’s hands, the power to fight is never a joke.

Since a major power has proved that India’s sound and color is only a paper tiger, Pakistan thinks that India is just like this idea, naturally caused a change in attitude.

Of course Pakistan, a slightly weaker party, seeing big brother teaching his opponent a lesson and jumping at the chance to do it himself probably won’t go down well. Just as Ukraine feels that if the United States can humiliate Russia, so can I. Just because India has lost its temper on the roof of the world doesn’t mean it will tolerate being belittled by Pakistan.

Ever since India gained independence, nationalism has been running high, and Nehru was so wrapped up in this public opinion that he was inching towards diplomacy, thinking that diplomacy would be enough to keep a major power at bay.

Now that the war is over, India’s nationalism has not improved, and Pakistan is humiliating India at this time, the probability is that India is not going to relent.

The cabinet secretary-general looked mushy, the micro-expression on his face made Makins’ heart startled, “Allen, what are you thinking about?”

“I’m thinking about the Indian high opinion, from our point of view can we carry out an offshore balancing?” Alan Wilson took out a cigar and lighted it, swallowed the fog, “Makins you know, war will bring demand, even if it does not bring, let the world in the balance, but also Britain’s obligation.”

Chaos is a ladder, Alan Wilson thinks so is normal, if India is too good after independence, that does not show that Britain colonization of India is wrong? In that sense, there was a great power to thank.

“My friend John, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been back to London.” Alan Wilson snapped, “A meeting of the Colonial Commissioners has been called, and I want to pursue the matter of the deficits in overseas enterprises. It’s gone too far, addicted to playing with transfer payments aren’t you?”

Unprofitable colonies are dumped quite a lot, but instead, it began to be unprofitable, unprofitable even if, what is the meaning of not making ends meet?

The oil pipeline in South Sudan is finished, is there no oil coming out of the pipeline? Also make up for the loss of the riots in Kenya, bear the loss of Indian origin have returned home, where there is what loss?

Makins nodded, but did not leave, still eyeing the supreme authority, Alan Wilson first spoke, “The matter of the strategic bomber has been finalized. The current defense needs of the United Kingdom are not suitable in increasing investment from strategic bombers. The Vulcan bomber is already sufficient. With some improvements on the prototype, there may still be room for maneuver, so don’t even think about new projects.”

Makins had come over several times to lobby for the air force, but Britain’s annual military spending was so high that Alan Wilson could do nothing about it. Britain’s two hundred strategic bombers have been a bit too much, regardless of the existing number and strategic objectives, these bombers have been completely sufficient.

In fact, with the improvement of missile performance, the somewhat short-legged British strategic bombers have been compensated for, and air-launched missiles have improved Britain’s air power.

If you don’t believe me, look at a few powerful countries in a few decades, you use the Tu95, I use the Boom 6, he uses the B52, everyone has a bright future.

Boom 20 is also in no hurry, the United States of America’s various Cold War than gold and other heavy and expensive black technology, and there is no occasion to use. Of course the UK maintains strategic bombers he is not opposed to, not get out a few squadrons to put Australia it, but also can save costs why not.

But the potential of strategic bombers, Whitehall after a professional assessment, mainly the Cabinet Secretary’s assessment, that continued investment has been unnecessary.

It’s not like the Navy, which has the Australians to foot the bill at the moment because of the Soviet support Indonesia has received, the Air Force is good enough to maintain, and many of the targets, increasingly larger fighters, can be replaced.

Makins was well persuaded and did his best to maintain the duties of the Permanent Undersecretary of Defense, but was still overruled by Alan Wilson, flirting with the idea that, “If you were a U.S. Department of Defense official there would be some reason to convince me, after all, it’s not Britain but the United States that’s now engaged in the strategic bombing of North Vietnam, but we’re not going to be involved in that war, and there’s no way that can be done. ”

The main thing was that the strategic bombers placed in Australia had met Australia’s needs, man Australia just thought so, and there was nothing he could do about it.

“Well, it seems destined to disappoint the Air Force.” Makins let out a bitter laugh, “Who let the Navy get taken care of, by the way, I heard that the British immigrants in Australia are making donations, your wife wouldn’t have anything to do with this, would she?”

“Just kidding.” Alan Wilson flatly denied, “Pamela is busy with her own business, how would she have time to do such boring things. She definitely has nothing to do with this matter.”

Pamela Mountbatten was indeed busy with mining, but the mining location was not Australia, but the island of New Guinea, which in later times was rich in mineral resources, with large reserves of gold, copper, oil, and natural gas; the Grasberg Gold Mine in Indonesia’s Papua Province was one of the world’s largest gold mines, and in addition to containing more than 3,000 tons of gold ore, there were also huge reserves of copper; and the Kpamono Oil Field in the Polar Bird Peninsula was Kpamono oil field on the Aurora Bird Peninsula is one of the larger oil fields in Indonesia.

The richest woman got the guidance given to the Secretary General by Nei to find the Panguna copper and gold mines, and took her position as the world’s No. 1 mining giant to a higher level.

After all, for such a long time, Allen Wilson and let his wife to buy public opinion, and let people donate, always have to show some sincerity.

Moreover, gold that kind of thing who do not like, de Gaulle have to back stabbing the United States, Britain out of the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States absolutely will not do so, even if it is done so in the French after, naturally, can only dig a gold mine to earn a little bit of hard money.

Of course, the richest woman has never been an equal share of the benefits, do not think Alan Wilson does not know the son of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force also has industry in Australia, this time also joined the exploration.

Among the various shares of the Dutch, Australians, and even local indigenous chiefs, absentee workers recruited from the British South Pacific Territory under the administration of Enderle, mining equipment and daily necessities through the British mainland and Malaya to provide. Every aspect was taken care of.

Alan Wilson is not greedy, the current annual production of two hundred tons of gold in Australia, the British Gold Coast one hundred tons, New Guinea can have one hundred tons of annual production is qualified. And there are British troops in Australia, and strategic bombers, and Britain has not even skimped on the latest aircraft carriers, which is generous enough for Australia.

That’s precisely why Australia had forgotten about Churchill’s messy operation, giving Britain the chance to heal its relationship with Australia.

Above all, Malaya was on Indonesia’s head, and as long as the colony was still in Britain’s grasp, Australia would not be able to give Britain the benefit of the doubt.

Soothing Makins, Allen Wilson continued to labor over the review of military expenditure, after a while the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance came over, if Frank still felt that it was too much, the two men still need to discuss how to use military expenditure to maintain the maximum combat effectiveness.

The Royal Navy can not be weakened, not because Field Marshal Mountbatten came from the Navy, but because the Royal Navy can theoretically be equal to the U.S. Navy. The first point is that the Royal Navy’s renewal has been completed, and all that needs to be done now is to upgrade the existing warships, such as installing newer radars and things like that. The U.S. Navy is now entering a replacement cycle, with WWII ships being retired.

The other thing is that unlike the US carriers, where the US is pursuing an all-nuclear fleet, the UK’s new carriers are still conventionally powered.

The overhaul cycle for nuclear-powered carriers is eighteen months, and if a carrier enters an overhaul cycle, the recuperation period tends to be longer than eighteen months, usually up to three years, while the recuperation cycle for smaller repairs is usually shorter than eighteen months, and eighteen months is actually an average cycle time.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, one-third of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are engaged in combat missions, one-third in at-sea training, and one-third in harbor for recuperation or in the factory for repair and maintenance. Of course, in wartime, the training, recuperation and maintenance cycles will be shortened, and the number of carriers able to carry out combat missions will be increased compared with normal times, so that more than half of the carriers can be put into combat.

The U.S. can put half of its carriers into combat when faced with a threat, and the U.K. can do the same in peacetime, but the U.S. has a hard time with an all-nuclear fleet. Later, the US Navy took the idea of an all-nuclear fleet as a fart, and cut all but nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

So the naval part of the military expenditure is to be firmly retained, the army is not a big problem, the current military expenditure is the navy and air force in the fight.

At a time when the U.S. strategic bombing of North Vietnam has entered into a regular event, Alan Wilson convened a meeting of colonial commissioners to withhold the profit portion from these high commissioners who play reinvestment and transfer payments.

“My friend John, is it known that there is a military conflict between India and Pakistan?” Facing the returning Persian Gulf High Commissioner, Alan Wilson opened his mouth to ask his friend, “I don’t know what the Arab countries think, we are all of one religion, don’t they sympathize with Pakistan? Always facing the bully that is India.”

“Alan, just say what you think straight away.” John was also a commissioner of the Turkish state, once he heard it, he knew that his colleague didn’t hold his fart, surely on wanted to stir up a stir.

“We all know that Indian resources are relatively scarce compared to its own population, especially oil.” Alan Wilson raised his head in a compassionate tone, “Arab countries can use oil as a weapon, of course, it can’t always be used, but it can be used when appropriate.”